The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap
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The Rejection Collection Vol. 2: The Cream of the Crap is the ultimate scrap heap of creative misfires -- from the lowbrow and the dirty to the politically incorrect and the weird, these rejects represent the best of the worst...in the best possible sense of the word. Handpicked by editor Matthew Diffee, these hilarious cartoons are accompanied by handwritten questionnaires and photographed self-portraits, providing a rare glimpse into the minds of the artists behind the rejection.
With appendices that explore the top ten reasons why cartoons are rejected and examine the solitary nature of the job of cartooning -- plus a special bonus section of questions asked of and answered by cartoon editor Robert Mankoff -- this sequel to The Rejection Collection offers even deeper insight into the exercise in frustration, patience, and amusement that is being a New Yorker cartoonist.
Warped, wicked, and wildly funny, The Rejection Collection Vol. 2 will appeal to every New Yorker fan -- and everyone with a taste for the absurd.
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Reviews for The Rejection Collection Vol. 2
8 ratings2 reviews
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5What am I missing? This book and the first book have exactly the same cartoons, as does the book by mankoff. So vol.1, vol.2 and volume mankoff are basically carbon copies. Wtf?
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Same problem as Volume 1: just not that many funny cartoons. Again, the questionnaires by the cartoonists are the best part.
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The Rejection Collection Vol. 2 - Gallery Books
THE REJECTION COLLECTION VOL. 2
This book is neither authorized nor sponsored by The New Yorker.
SIMON SPOTLIGHT ENTERTAINMENT
An imprint of Simon & Schuster
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Copyright © 2007 by Matthew Diffee
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The rejection collection vol. 2 : the cream of the crap / edited by Matthew Diffee.
p. cm.—1st ed.
ISBN-13: 978-1-4169-3401-1
ISBN-10: 1-4169-3401-4
eISBN: 978-1-416-95116-2
[1. New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925). 2. American wit and humor, Pictorial.]
I. Diffee, Matthew. II. New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925).
NC1428.N47 R452 2007
2007024872
Pages 297 and 298 constitute an extension of this copyright page.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Paul Noth
Roz Chast
J.C. Duffy
Marshall Hopkins
Alex Gregory
Nick Downes
Ariel Molvig
Glen LeLievre
Robert Leighton
Mick Stevens
Julia Suits
David Sipress
Zachary Kanin
Eric Lewis
Harry Bliss
Mort Gerberg
Jason Patterson
C. Covert Darbyshire
Michael Shaw
Leo Cullum
Carolita Johnson
P.S. Mueller
J.B. Handelsman
Mike Twohy
Sidney Harris
John O’Brien
Jack Ziegler
Robert Weber
Marisa Acocella Marchetto
Pat Byrnes
Michael Crawford
Gahan Wilson
P.C. Vey
Christopher Weyant
Kim Warp
Drew Dernavich
Danny Shanahan
Sam Gross
Appendix 1 : Cartoonists at Work
Appendix 2: Rejection Reasons
Appendix 3: Bob Answers the Tough Questions
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
So this is volume two of The Rejection Collection. Welcome to it.
To appreciate the concept of this collection, I think it helps to know a little something about the submission process for cartoons at The New Yorker. It goes like this: Every week the forty or fifty regular cartoonists at the magazine come up with ten cartoons. On Tuesday we each bring our batch often ideas into the office or fax them in from afar, depending on where we live and how social we’re feeling. Bob Mankoff, our cartoon editor, looks them over and selects a stack to present to David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker. This happens on Wednesdays in the art meeting where an undisclosed process, which may or may not involve the use of darts, results in the selection of the fifteen to twenty gags the magazine will purchase that week.